California—California immigrant truck drivers are suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles to block its plan to cancel nearly 20,000 commercial driver’s licenses, arguing the state’s actions threaten their livelihoods and violate due-process protections. According to Fox News and Associated Press, plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court this week.
The legal challenge raises tension between state administrators and immigrant workforces just weeks before the cancellations are set to begin. The lawsuit claims that the DMV’s plan to revoke the licenses stems from clerical errors involving expiration dates that didn’t match drivers’ work authorizations — errors the state could fix under California law but chose not to.
DMV notices sent in November and December 2025 warned immigrant truckers that their non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses would be canceled starting Jan. 5, 2026, due to mismatches between license expiration dates and federal authorization periods. Subsequent notices extended similar cancellations to mid-February…